Side by side
India and South Africa compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
31 May 1910 — Four colonies join to create the Union of South Africa
- Shared indicators
- 45
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 1
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- from 1658
Slavery at the Cape
The Company began importing enslaved people from Madagascar, East Africa, India and the Indonesian archipelago, founding a slave society whose labour underpinned the colony for nearly two centuries.
Peoples & Migration · from the South Africa chronicle · The Dutch Cape Colony and the frontier · History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa, South Africa (country, history and government)